trying to work on Men of Lithin stuff but my brain is too mush. but I think this old convo summarizes it well tbh

i wish i could read and would have figured this out sooner because the description makes it so obvious and im just dumb

i posted a video a few days ago and i realize maybe this should have been the thumbnail

5.3 natlan archon quest spoilers

i made a video

youtu.be/YtV9QMNKVW0

also, sidenote re: my recent pre-5.3 thread, and not to gas myself up too much, but:

almost a year ago I made a video on block time an eternalism based on the in-game book Time Trekker. It clearly had some foreshadowing to Natlan

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I guess I'm thinking a lot about this because after Mavuika is placed on the throne in her animated short, she's on a bike ride with a bench and a changing environment. Is this over time? and/or space?

tbh it reminds me a lot of Westworld that had a lot of mix-and-matched scenes in time

we see Mavuika walking along a floaty glowing path she's been on, reaching some destination. We similarly saw this at the ends of the 5.0 and 5.1 archon quest acts.

we were never told how or when this happens but I think these all may be splices of a scene taking place either in the past or future

in the second act of the archon quest Mavuika basically explained the concept of the block universe aka eternalism. long ago I talked about how Time Trekker alluded to that

and there's a lot of themes of physical objects holding physical 'memory' power, e.g. encapsulating the past in the present

i was tempted to make a video on the 5.3 livestream/mavuika teaser, but frankly we're gonna get answers in a week or so anyway, and my thoughts are half-baked

but I am convinced that there's gonna be some "time" shenanigans

(mini thread)

I HAVE MANY THOUGHTS ABOUT THE LIVESTREAM BUT @owletdesu.bsky.social MADE ME NOTICE THAT CITLALI HAS A COPY OF FLOWERS FOR PRINCESS FISCHL!!!!!!!! AAAAAAA

fun lore stream in a lil over 3 hours on ashi's channel !!!

sniff sniff y’all i thought i had peaked with 4k followers just bullshitting and shitposting my khaenri’ah glazing but 20k? yous guys are insane and i love you 🥺 sobbing

THANK YOU all so much ❤️

so my current video is delayed because I was HSR-ing

mild spoiler ig but its not event/story related:
I super enjoy the party car event but also if you just go up to Shush and talk to him he'll tell you jokes including this "joke"

inhales sharply

we're going on a date and I'm supposed to overanalyze everything he says? isn't that how it always goes

a #genshinlore video: Halloween edition

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